Showing posts with label 60's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 60's. Show all posts

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Ode to Lana Winters

I have to say, I love American Horror Story. I love it in the same way I love Stephen King - it's cheesy, kind of B-grade, but tells an awesome story that you get weirdly obsessed with. I just finished watching Asylum, the last of the three seasons I hadn't watched. I think it was the best of all of them, with Murder House second and Coven third. They just really went hardcore on the whole 'bad things happening to innocent people' idea. A story where someone you can relate to is helpless to other people and things, constantly trying to escape but trapped, now that's the kind of story people are gripped by. It's also a very relevant story in this current climate of asylum seeker detention centers. The show is made in America so I'm not sure the parallel was intended, but nonetheless it feels like a metaphor.

Something else I love about this show is the amount of interesting female characters it has, all with their own stories. Some strong, some weak. But not weak in the sense that they're a stereotype with no background. Weak as in they have their own struggles and they've been beaten down by them. The characters themselves have all been written strongly.

Unfortunately I think it is overwhelmingly a white show, especially seasons 1 and 2, with the exception of Britne Oldford who was awesome, but didn't play a very big part. Possibly they took that criticism when they were making Coven, which obviously has the amazing Gabourney Sidibe and a small cast of other incredible black women making up the voodoo coven. Like, that's awesome and all, but I wish they would start casting other minority actors in roles which aren't to do with their race at all. You know? Just as the main characters. Who aren't involved in race-related storylines. That would be nice.

Ok, on to the other stuff I guess. Lana Winters' outfits at the end of Asylum were off the chain! They almost made me want to wear skirt suits, pointy stilletos and fur coats... almost. Here're some examples:






And here are a few I just found on ebay... because you never know, maybe one day I'll reform my sneaker and tshirt wearing ways and become uber-glam.





Sooo excellent. Powerful journalist lady looks all the way.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Glare





Verrry rushed photos from the other day, with weird faces because it was too glarey to look at the camera properly. Showing off my new space girl lipgloss, which is three parts David Bowie and a little bit Courtney Stodden. Also one of my favourite 90's pretending to be 60's dresses. The best kind.

On this day I saw Batman. You know what? Batman SUCKED. It sucked SO HARD. It was a shitty action film with a shitty villain and a shitty, shitty twist. Seriously Nolan? Or should I say, Nolan's brother?? Whoever was responsible for that waste of two and a half hours was a complete idiot. Or was an aspiring Michael Bay. OR BOTH, OBVIOUSLY.

I mean, you know. The reason it was so bad was because the first two were so good. They were so good! Batman deserved a better end than that. Ugh, and judging from the ending it wasn't even the end, was it? IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE END.

Anyway.

How did he get back to Gotham from the hole-prison? In like half a day? From the other side of the world? WITH NO MONEY OR ID??? OR ANYTHING?!??!

ANYWAY.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Cher.








Cher. I need her huge, poofy Mermaids hair, I need her fringe, I need her clothes. Give me all of these. Also, I need to look like the receptionist from Beetlejuice.


HOW CAN I DO THIS??? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

NOW TO PLAY DIABLO 3 AHFJKDSHBJGKDSHJGKSJFDKG